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Superior Scaffold is built Ford tough

August 21, 2014

Some jobs go off just as planned and then others…well, let’s just say need a little extra attention. You see, from the outside a job looks one way and then from the inside it turns into an entirely different animal. Pacific Ford was one of those animals. A simple shoring job to create a large display room and offices overlooking the service center turned out to be more than anyone imagined. But because we have the best guys in the business – it wasn’t anything we couldn’t handle. Just like Ford trucks we can go anywhere and do just about anything. Let’s take a look at...

Superior Scaffold at SAIA Annual Convention & Expo, Austin, TX

August 12, 2014

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Put on your sittin' britches - the Superior Scaffold boys travel where it's so dry the catfish are carrying canteens - Austin, TX for the Annual SAIA (Scaffold & Access Industry Association) Convention and Expo. I have a ten gallon mouth about this show because there was lots of cool equipment (some of which might be on your next job) great people to mingle with and awesome BBQ to eat. Now, don’t sit on your spurs, I’ll get to the details of our visit. And you can hang your hat on that! But if you can’t wash off your war paint and...

Anyway you want it – Renovations at Passariello’s Pizzeria & Italian Eatery, Moorestown, NJ

July 15, 2014

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They say that making a great pizza starts with the crust. Now, I have to disagree slightly – because I think that the foundation of a truly good pizza lies in the sauce. But for hypothetical purposes just go with me here...

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center – New 178,000 square foot advanced care pavilion

July 9, 2014

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Penn Medicine began construction on their new 178,000 square foot advanced care pavilion (Powelton Avenue and N. 38 Street) and called swing stage specialist Bob Sarkisian at Superior Scaffold to provide the suspended scaffold necessary to get the facade work done. It’s fun for me to see an illustration and then show some photos of what it looks like along the way. Check these out. Image Courtesy of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center This is an enormous job with many phases. We have had as many as 25 swings on and around the building (including inside the elevator shafts) at any one time. The new pavilion is...

Inside Out at the Kaiserman Jewish Community Center in Wynnewood, PA

June 25, 2014

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I love it when I can detail a unique job and this was a perfect example. Superior Scaffold was called into the Kaiserman JCC to help shore up the ceiling joists so crews could repair the support brackets up against wall. There were a couple of challenges – the first being that the scissor lift had to get in behind the scaffolding so crews could get to the brackets for the repairs. Check out the picture and look to the bottom left – you will see the lift parked inside our scaffold. The second challenge was also the water – anytime you work...

SWING, SWING, SWING, at The Sterling House, 18th & JFK (pt. 3)

June 16, 2014

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As Louis Prima once sang, “Swing, swing, swing” – oh wait, close… “Sing, Sing, Sing – (with a swing)” so we just added the W. Sounds better this way. But that’s just what Superior Scaffold did on the third phase of this project. (See part 1 – and part 2). The Sterling House Apartment Homes is a unique building at the corner of JFK blvd and 18th in downtown Philly. Superior had 2 36’ foot straight platforms on the front and sides of this building so crews could polish the metal on the facade. Very cool. Here you can see crews working directly...

The Sterling House (part 2) – “Can’t you hear me knocking?”

June 16, 2014

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We showed you the brilliant landing platform on the 30th floor of the Sterling House Apartments (18th & JFK) in our previous blog. See it here: It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a crane landing platform? (part 1) and I promised to bring you the second part. So here it is… Overhead sidewalk protection all around this building. It's a multipurpose overhead protection system (as you will see in the following pics) not only did it have to provide protection for the pedestrians around this busy apartment building but it also had to provide support for our swing staging all...

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How to add floors to an existing building – high exposure cantilever scaffold

February 5, 2014

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This is amazing to me. How do you add 3 floors to an already existing building? You probably haven’t thought about that before. I know that I hadn’t but the people at Superior Scaffold have many times. In downtown areas space is a valuable commodity so sometimes the only place to expand is up. But this leaves a myriad of challenges. The biggest one being how do we do all of the necessary heavy work outside of the building that needs to be done? Well, by creating working space outside of the area being built. And in this case at the Parc...

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Superior Scaffold hangs a whopper of a job at Seneca Niagara Casino, Niagara Falls, NY

November 21, 2013

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This is a monstor of a job. We promised some photos and since we, at Superior Scaffold, keep our promises - here they are. It's hard to believe that this all hangs 40 feet ABOVE the entire gaming room floor while people are hustling and bustling about underneath. They sit above the interior that is the size of 2 full length football fields. These wings or fingers are 300 and 400 feet long! What this project entails is getting crews up underneath the ceiling while the casino remains open for business as usual so they can get the...

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How to have a positive experience with a setback – Porch brackets at 1900 Rittenhouse, Philadelphia

November 18, 2013

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It’s time to pay tribute to the outsiders in our company. Yes, it’s the swing department. In fact, I hate to admit this but they came up with that very clever headline. I wish I could take credit for it but I can’t. Is our swing department the “bad boys” of the company? You tell me? In their spare time all they do is race cars (fast cars) build hot rods, snowmobile through the frozen tundra (very fast) talk about driving fast, and taking chances. Have you detected a theme here? All except for the one VW building hippy who just...